OMG. Who invents this crap?Can you not just slip a bit of paper between your skin and the monitor?Or even better, get a foot spa, pour in a bottle of cheap, gut rot whiskey and soak your feet. Whoever is monitoring the thing will have a baby.

Playing Devil's Advocaat (boom boom) here, I can see a big upside to this. Why impose zero alcohol zones and minimum pricing and all that other shit? Cheaper and easier to slap a Lohan Bangle on the small minority who can't control their drinking and commit crimes when they're pissed, and everyone else gets their lives back to run themselves. The few problem drinkers get the option, as I imagine Lohan did, of the monitor or jail and will mostly choose the monitor. Less pressure on the penal system and more prison space for more serious criminals. In fact everybody wins.

Of course, all that presupposes a government keen to use the technology to support individual liberty instead of removing it and/or wiping its arse on. In itself the gadget is neutral - the potential for good or bad all depends on the attitudes of those using it. That might be a good reason to change governments, laws or constitutions, but when isn't that true anyway?

No, it is not just you, it is typical of the genre, like laws with arbitrary numbers in them - blood alcohol, speed limits etc.Disgusting beyond measure. The little control freaks fall asleep drooling over the thought that they might be able to monitor their 'clients' 24X7 rather than just at isolated places or times.

I'm sure that their workings would be 'Home Office Approved' and deemed accurate in law, just like some other devices...

Pouring Listerine and the like over the thing every 5 mins would seem to be the best solution.